PyrollisAhFiros
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Hello gang;
I need some help here related to hardware issues and OSes.
My friend is trying to install Windows XP on her computer and it won't let her install Win XP fully. By fully, I mean it won't even read some of the critical files like .dll, .sys and some more. I would be spamming the "enter" button to retry reading the CD for the files but it would keep saying "can't not find (filename)". Sometimes it would go through, sometimes it will not, so I would have to press ESC to skip the file, and yes I know, Windows XP need all of the files in order to work fluidly and smooth but I had no choice and see what skipping the file can do. The result: Windows XP experienced a BSOD and I couldn't even load WinXP at all.
Before making an attempt to install WinXP, she had an old 10 GB Fujitisu HD and she wanted to upgrade to a 80 GB Western Digital HD. She also upgraded the RAM size to 384 MB. The OS before everything else, was Windows ME (ME =
). It was so fcked up, I couldn't even get around on WinME because it was loaded with spywares and viruses due to the extreme slow-downs and constant crashes. I wiped it out and tried to install Win2000 but it didn't go through, it experienced the same fate WinXP did. Keep in mind, I was trying to install Win2000 on her old 10GB HD. After she upgraded to 80GB, she bought the home edition version of WinXP and tried it on her new HD but it won't go through.
I suspect it could be the R/W laser lens of the CD-ROM. Could it be because of the lens, it won't read the CD completely, it probably locked into place and when I clicked on "enter" to retry, it kept trying to get out of its place to read but it won't for some reasons. Would you think it's the CD-ROM drive or a certain component in her computer that's preventing her from installing WinXP? I tried to do the process of elimination and I thought in the first place, it was because of the corrupted hard drive, she couldn't install Windows 2000. Now on the new hard drive, the same problem arised and it can't be the new hard drive... it has to do something with the CD-ROM, not being able to read the CD properly...
Let me know what you guys think, and hopefully one of you guys experienced this before and share your experience with me. Thanks in advance!
I need some help here related to hardware issues and OSes.
My friend is trying to install Windows XP on her computer and it won't let her install Win XP fully. By fully, I mean it won't even read some of the critical files like .dll, .sys and some more. I would be spamming the "enter" button to retry reading the CD for the files but it would keep saying "can't not find (filename)". Sometimes it would go through, sometimes it will not, so I would have to press ESC to skip the file, and yes I know, Windows XP need all of the files in order to work fluidly and smooth but I had no choice and see what skipping the file can do. The result: Windows XP experienced a BSOD and I couldn't even load WinXP at all.
Before making an attempt to install WinXP, she had an old 10 GB Fujitisu HD and she wanted to upgrade to a 80 GB Western Digital HD. She also upgraded the RAM size to 384 MB. The OS before everything else, was Windows ME (ME =
). It was so fcked up, I couldn't even get around on WinME because it was loaded with spywares and viruses due to the extreme slow-downs and constant crashes. I wiped it out and tried to install Win2000 but it didn't go through, it experienced the same fate WinXP did. Keep in mind, I was trying to install Win2000 on her old 10GB HD. After she upgraded to 80GB, she bought the home edition version of WinXP and tried it on her new HD but it won't go through. I suspect it could be the R/W laser lens of the CD-ROM. Could it be because of the lens, it won't read the CD completely, it probably locked into place and when I clicked on "enter" to retry, it kept trying to get out of its place to read but it won't for some reasons. Would you think it's the CD-ROM drive or a certain component in her computer that's preventing her from installing WinXP? I tried to do the process of elimination and I thought in the first place, it was because of the corrupted hard drive, she couldn't install Windows 2000. Now on the new hard drive, the same problem arised and it can't be the new hard drive... it has to do something with the CD-ROM, not being able to read the CD properly...
Let me know what you guys think, and hopefully one of you guys experienced this before and share your experience with me. Thanks in advance!
almost sound like mine. ;-/ but thats why i'm afraid to reformat again cuz of my cd is so screwed up. I thanked someone to fixed it and i dont know how he did it but.... i need that again cuz of my stupid .dll is missing on IE and constantly crashing more often.. pisses me off. 
